Vermont Community Foundation

Kelsey Trust Grants

¿Quién puede postularse? Organizations must serve people or protect the environment of the Lake Champlain Basin, preferably be located in the Basin, and be a 501(c)(3), public agency, municipality, or fiscally sponsored group. Sectarian organizations and individuals are ineligible.

Fecha límite: Spring LOI deadline June 1; winter LOI deadline December 1. Emergency requests may be discussed out of cycle.

Press Forward Vermont (Press Forward Fund)

¿Quién puede postularse? Newsrooms must primarily serve Vermont audiences, produce at least two original nonpartisan public-service stories weekly, have at least one FTE journalist based in the communities served, follow Society of Professional Journalists standards, and commit to training, fundraising, reporting, and evaluation. For-profit applicants require a fiscal sponsor.

Health, Wellness, & Economic Empowerment Grant for Communities Impacted by Racial Injustice

¿Quién puede postularse? Nonprofit entities are eligible to apply; individuals cannot apply directly and must apply as part of a nonprofit organization or community group. Priority is given to established or new programs promoting wellness, healing, and/or financial empowerment for communities impacted by racial injustice; organizations whose primary mission serves people in Vermont historically and/or currently impacted by racial injustice; and proposals informed and led by people impacted by racial injustice or by people with relevant lived experience. Applicants must also meet the Vermont Community Foundation's General Applicant Guidelines and Requirements. The program does not support debt reduction or deficit funding, capital costs and campaigns, expenses already incurred, religious instruction, political campaigns or lobbying, ongoing operational expenses that merely maintain existing programming, or duplicate services available at no cost through other organizations.

The Samara Fund

¿Quién puede postularse? Priorities include queer and trans-led work, BIPOC and trans Vermonters, elders, youth, people with disabilities, harm reduction, work beyond Chittenden County, small budgets, and long-term projects.

Fecha límite: Main 2026 application window February 10-April 7; certain emergent needs and sponsorships are rolling.

Special and Urgent Needs (SUN) Grants

¿Quién puede postularse? Generally available to Vermont-based or Vermont-serving 501(c)(3) nonprofits, public agencies, municipalities, or organizations using a fiscal sponsor. The grants address unexpected mission-related needs or opportunities.

Robert Sincerbeaux Fund (RSF) Grants

Administrado por Preservation Trust of Vermont

¿Quién puede postularse? Available to nonprofit organizations and groups undertaking historic building preservation or related project-development work. Eligible activities include hiring preservation consultants or architects for condition assessments and other technical assistance that advances a project.

Fecha límite: Rolling deadline.